Telnet IS available in Windows 7, just not by default.
To enable it:
Start > Control Panel > Programs > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off
Select “Telnet Client” and wait for it to install. Easy peasy.
I’ve persuaded my son to go over to Ubuntu, and I spent last night setting up his laptop to run Ubuntu 11.04 (with Gnome, rather than Unity). All pretty smooth and he seems convinced, but I hate the scrollbars in 11.04 (left). In my view, they are awkward to use and anti-intuitive. Luckily my son doesn’t like them either…
To remove, enter the following in the terminal (you will also need to enter your password):
$ sudo su echo "export LIBOVERLAY_SCROLLBAR=0" > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/80overlayscrollbarI find this a really annoying feature – I rarely want to click through to a website from a document. Worse, when LibreOffice has converted your typed web address to a hyperlink, you can’t edit it if you’ve made a typo without jumping though hoops.
You can undo an automatic hyperlink by using Ctrl-Z
To turn off:
I need to send a personalised email to a few hundred contacts contained in an Excel 2007 spreadsheet
The first thing to do is to make sure the spreadsheet is properly divided into fields – that is, each cell needs to contain one item. For example, if you want to start the email with “Hello John”, it’s no good if your name cell contains the whole name. For these purposes, my spreadsheet simply has two columns, one containing the firstname and the second containing the email address.
Then:
From the ribbon
I’ve just spent about an hour looking for the RSS feed of The Onion Network News video podcast. For the life of me I couldn’t find it linked from the site anywhere, just loads of links to it in iTunes.
After some creative searches, I found it here: http://www.theonion.com/feeds/onn/
I’ve been working with a client this morning who employs someone to respond to customer emails from their website. Unfortunately, the email requests are almost always the same thing and require the same answer. Their poor employee spends his days typing the same email over and over and over…
An autoresponder set up on the mail server would be a good enough answer, but a bit too impersonal, and my client wants each email read and personalised if necessary. So how about an email template that automatically includes all the basic info, and can be edited as necessary?
To set up the template in MS Outlook 2007:
To send an email based on the template:
Select the template required, and you’re ready to go. Any changes you make to the message will not be saved to the template, so it’s ready to use over and over again and the employee’s time is freed up to make the tea more often.
When I’m setting up websites for people, I usually develop on my laptop which has a webserver installed. When I’m happy with the site I upload it to the internet for the world to access. This speeds up development as I can make changes to files without having to access a remote server, or do the tedious download-edit-upload thing.
Sometimes though, it’s useful for the client to be able to look at the website whilst it’s still on my laptop. Of course, they could just come over and have a look – but this is the 21st Century, and there’s a much better way of doing it.
dyndns.org allows you to set up a permanent web address which points to your PC. This can get a bit technical – and I can help you set it up on your PC if so – but here’s how I configured mine:
And that’s it – may sound complicated, but suprisingly easy when you try it, and if you want help, contact me!
Beware though! This can open up your PC to the outsideworld and be a security risk, so do proceed with caution. I always turn mine off when it’s not in use.
It usually takes a bit of messing around to get a Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP web server up and running and having just bought a new laptop I’ve been putting it off. I’ve just had a request to get a small site together for someone in under 2 hours so I thought I’d better get a test server running.
Thanks to this handy instructional, it took my about 30 seconds and I should have the new site up and running in no time! [rolls up sleeves]
This came up again today with one of my clients who deals extensively in Euros. Having never worked out how to get the € character out of their keyboard, they’ve all resorted to typing out the word ‘euros’ on their invoices.
So we know it’s there in the number 4 key, but how do we get to it?? The Fn key would be the obvious choice, or maybe even Ctrl or Alt?
It’s actually quite simple. To type the € character in most applications, hold down Ctrl + Alt + 4 at the same time.
A client asked me today what the ‘N’ stands for on some edition of Microsoft Windows 7 (‘N’ Editions actually go right back to XP).
In a nutshell, the ‘N’ stands for ‘Avoid’.
In 2004, the European Commission fined Microsoft nearly €500million for Anti-competitive Practices relating to the bundling of Windows Media Player with the Windows Operating System. Microsoft could continue to bundle Media Player, but they had to offer a version without it and these are the ‘N’ editions of Windows. For the most part, everything else is identical.